Re: Question about Masa paper
Katharine, Thanks for trying out the masa paper. I think it was my inquiry that may have started you on looking at it for gum. But I wonder if this paper being made from sulphite stock is like the paper I was asking about that was used by Kuhn in the early 1900s. Did Japanese papers exist at that time that were made of sulphite or is this an example of a more western paper being made to resemble traditional paper, and if so how close is it. Kuhn printed on a paper that was a light brown color with small flecks of darker brown veg. matter. I thought I had samples of Japanese papers here to look at to try to identify it, but they have not surfaced. My memory is that the paper he used was smooth on both sides and was a paper I had been told before was from a plant that supplied both the fiber and the transparent size that so firmly glued together the sheet. Jack
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